On this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck is joined by Sarah Palin and Sarah's husband, Joe Biden. They talk about how Joe Biden should be in the Hall of Fame, and Sarah explains why she thinks he should not be. Glenn also talks about the dangers of high interest rates, and what to do if the Fed starts raising rates.
00:28:07.480I can tell you when I became against the vaccine and I'm not really against it.
00:28:13.300But when I became very skeptical of it and that is when they started acting so bizarrely against all reason and when they started forcing people to take it, when did the other side flip?
00:28:30.840When did the other side say, I'm not going to take this vaccine if it comes from Donald Trump?
00:28:36.820And then all of a sudden, because it was administered by Joe Biden, they're not willing to question any of it.
00:32:45.660And you when when opinions, Trump facts, civilizations cannot stand when the Germans denied the gas chambers and said they are all conspiracy theories.
00:33:00.940Well, it could have been a conspiracy theory because it was only backed up by whispers.
00:33:36.420Cass Sunstein, who was working for the president, President Obama, advocated and still advocates calling everyone who disagrees with, let's say, critical race theory.
00:33:52.060They claim that that's a conspiracy theory.
00:34:10.020By Cass Sunstein to the administration and to the left to label people conspiracy theories, quote, even if the claim or the charge ends up being true.
00:34:23.980We know you can't call milk or meat organic without standards.
00:35:39.080And your friends, if they won't go in and look at the other side, and I say the same thing about you, if you are presented with facts that you can go and check and you're not willing to change your mind, if they prove to be true, well, then you've joined a religion.
00:37:42.020I just want to talk about the squeeze of the items in stores, the empty shelves.
00:37:49.940My husband is in the National Guard and he has to quit because they're not going to be giving raises or anything for the technician jobs for at least 18 months.
00:38:00.240And it's just getting very, very tight in the world.
00:39:01.500And it does no good to to wallow in this and say we were right and he was wrong because people are truly, truly hurting right now because of inflation.
00:39:12.180We just have to focus right now on making sure that we keep people awake and we we tell them because so far nothing has been effective coming from this administration on blaming this inflation on anybody else.
00:39:29.080But I wouldn't I I wouldn't trust that that's going to be the case a year from now.
00:39:35.580They'll probably stumble onto something that will work.
00:39:39.560We just need to make sure that we are teaching our friends while they are teachable because the religion hasn't kicked in yet.
00:39:46.640That these things come from money printing.
00:39:51.180These things come from massive spending at the federal government level.
00:39:57.160And, you know, the good news is I think it's fifty five percent say right now that inflation is being caused by the federal government and printing money and the build back better bill.
00:40:15.140That thing is known by almost everyone now looking at a two trillion or one point nine trillion dollar bill.
00:40:23.240So most everybody, including Democrats, are now starting to say that's only going to make things worse.
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00:43:23.800This is the part in the story where you usually send your children out to the mean streets and tell them don't come back until they've found dinner.
00:45:51.820But you're talking about inflation and shortages and everything.
00:45:55.780And I've got I've got to tell you, I've got two one year old or almost one year old twins and you haven't known panic until you're staring at the formula aisle and the dairy free formula that your kids need is not on the shelf anywhere.
00:46:09.780You know, I've driven I've driven as far as two hours away from my home to find their formula.
00:46:17.140I don't think people have any any concept of of what's coming our way and how dangerous the situation that we find ourselves in is.
00:46:30.180I mean, we have we have demonized the Donald Trump idea of America first.
00:47:16.960And that is a compassionate thing to do.
00:47:20.040And we are we are in a situation to where if we, God forbid, would go to war or we would have a real serious disruption where we're not getting anything from China for a long time.
00:47:36.420We don't make our own medicine right now.
00:50:40.340Because I don't think you're talking about limited chaos.
00:50:43.440What you're talking about is possibly one of two things and maybe the combination civil disobedience, which is not chaos, civil disobedience and allowing people to feel the full ramification of their choice.
00:51:02.120And that's the best thing that happened to Donald Trump is that he didn't win this last.
00:51:12.260He's not in office because people are waking up and seeing what they're preaching isn't working.
00:51:21.980And the best thing that could have happened to Donald Trump and his campaign and the Republicans is for this nightmare, which I wish on no one.
00:51:33.500But this nightmare of inflation, it is the difference that we have been missing.
00:51:41.100Americans have felt comfortable through everything, including the bank bailout, which was absolutely wrong.
00:51:49.620But they were saved from the real, true pain of all of the mistakes of the past.
00:51:57.820Yes, people suffered in 2008, but apparently it wasn't enough.
00:52:01.460And it wasn't certainly the right people suffering, the ones who actually caused it.
00:52:06.680Now, the people who have caused this are in office, but people voted them in and listened to all of these lies.
00:52:15.100Because they're waking up now and going, wait a minute, that doesn't work.
00:52:20.160And if you're asking for allowing people to feel the pain of their own mistakes, that's not chaos.
00:52:32.380Let me use another word that comes from our lexicon that you'll understand that fits right in as we're really having a great discussion here.
00:52:52.580We need to sacrifice in the fight against it.
00:52:55.320If people need to, and amen, I want to say amen to my brothers and sisters out there across America who have maybe even given up their jobs to fight against this.
00:54:04.960It's a pleasure talking to you and I, I enjoy you guys' program.
00:54:07.780I mean, I used to, um, listening to Rush Limbaugh for quite some time too, but, uh, try to get right to the point as your producer wanted me to.
00:54:27.260Uh, and, uh, so when they talk about shortage of drivers, I just want to clarify something.
00:54:34.160Um, I know you had someone on the program that talked about that for a little bit, but there's no difference in shortages since the pandemic and before the pandemic.
00:54:43.120There's always a turnover where people come in, they don't like it.
00:54:49.500So as a person that's been doing this through the whole COVID and going to Canada to get loads of toilet paper when that used to cure COVID, um, so going all the way up to debris, New Brunswick, Canada, getting toilet paper and coming back through.
00:55:04.220Now, just recently, last week, I was cutting through Canada and I was advised that come January 15th, if you're not vaccinated, Canada does not want you in their country.
00:55:17.040So what do you think that's going to do to the trucking industry?
00:55:20.800So when you talk about supply and demand and you put these restrictions that are stupid, because you figure I've been through Canada for the better part of a year during the whole pandemic.
00:55:32.760And now all of a sudden, January 15th is the magic wand that says we can no longer allow people from the United States into Canada unless you're vaccinated.
00:55:40.380And before you even show up to the border, you're supposed to download an app on your phone and answer their COVID questionnaire.
00:55:45.040So wait, so are you going up to Canada and getting things for America?
00:55:52.300So I was going to Canada to get toilet paper back when that was the crisis.
00:55:56.380But now we all know that one ply versus two ply doesn't occur COVID.
00:56:02.800So for different products and reasons, we go to Canada for it could be our printing paper, it could be anything.
00:56:09.420But right now, doing flatbed, it was mostly getting some pellets for heating.
00:56:47.000Otherwise, you get a big no-no and you can be parked for a good 34 hours.
00:56:51.720There's a 70-hour work week you're allowed.
00:56:54.120In that 70-hour work week, when your 70 hours is up, you need a 34-hour reset.
00:56:57.360So when Donald Trump was in office and right in the middle of the pandemic, he said, listen, I'm going to make it so you can go COVID exempt on your logs to do groceries, strictly grocery items that can include water, toilet paper, anything for the grocery stores.
00:57:11.680And that's why the supply chain didn't get affected as bad is because he took the restrictions off us.
00:57:17.140And then when he had these, when he took the big warehouses like Amazon and all these other like Walmart grocery stores, you know, the distribution centers, when you're, especially in Maine, pulling spring water, when you're doing that line of work, it frees the truck up.
00:57:32.440So as you can get to your delivery, if you're running short on time, whether it be weather in the Northeast, like we've had, anything that can affect your day, cars, commuting.
00:57:42.500So that allowed us to get the freight there.
00:57:45.440But once you got there, if your next load was not considered a COVID load, you had to go to the nearest truck stop and get a 10-hour reset thing to get your hours back and then get going.
00:57:54.580So what happens when you restrict us truck drivers, like California has their rules with what they'll allow for trucks in there, that's not helping getting the supply out.
00:58:04.200And then when you have a shortage of warehouses that are infected with COVID, they go from 300 people down to 100 people.
00:58:11.400Now you got trucks sitting, even though they made the appointment time for one o'clock in the afternoon and they didn't get unloaded till six, that chews into their hours.
00:58:17.980Now that driver had five hours in his book to go get the next load, but because he got held up, he no longer has those five hours.
00:58:28.780By the way, there is a shortage now of people, they say, especially in the Northeast, people that are willing to plow and salt the roads or sand the roads.
00:58:40.920This is going to cause even more problems.
00:58:43.920Uh, this one, uh, I just read this morning, I can't remember where it was federalist or, uh, wall street.
00:58:53.280Um, but, uh, the, the shortage looks like it's being caused by those people who are just not willing to go back to work.
00:59:01.480Um, especially with something risky, like going and plowing the roads, et cetera, et cetera, and hard work.
00:59:07.720A lot of them aren't willing to go to work.
00:59:10.060If you are somebody who can drive a truck and you can drive a salt truck, uh, I would, uh, I would beg of you to go back to work and, uh, and make sure those roads are clear, at least for the trucks.
00:59:23.800So we can get supplies, uh, to and fro.
00:59:26.880Well, most of us, it's a season of giving, but it's also the season of taking.
00:59:34.340If you happen to be a cyber criminal, it's the most wonderful time of the year for them as well.
00:59:39.420Cause you're doing a lot of shopping online, which makes you very vulnerable.
00:59:44.060Uh, there's things you can do like use a VPN instead of public wifi, create strong passwords, uh, checking your accounts for fraud, et cetera, et cetera.
00:59:54.340But you also need a dedicated source checking for you on all kinds of things.
01:01:35.900And the January or there was a deadline of June 30th, I believe.
01:01:42.680But what I've been told is January 1st is actually the deadline.
01:01:46.460What they want to do is anybody that is not given the shot or agreed to take the shot is all of that administrative and punitive action is going to take place between January 1st and June 30th.
01:02:02.820I'm also a partially disabled veteran.
01:02:05.000And if they what will happen is if they do a dishonorable discharge, I lose my retirement, but also lose my disability through the VA as well.
01:02:15.660So have you have you called your senator?
01:02:34.500That said that they had contacted the Department of the Army.
01:02:37.640But OK, so you call me I'm going I'm going away.
01:02:44.100All I can tell you is you need to call your your senator, call your congressman, get them working on your case.
01:02:53.060Make sure that, you know, it's that somebody is following it because there is an effort now in Congress and in the Senate to make sure that no one is dishonorably discharged
01:03:05.980and that everyone gets their benefits if they are leaving because they won't take the vaccine.
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01:05:06.340Hey, I just would while I'm concerned about the inflation and the effect that the impact it has on me this year, I'm really concerned about the effects of inflation on the middle class families as it begins to take away all their assets.
01:05:47.220You know, your nest egg will go away because if your salary doesn't go up with inflation, then you're going to have to start dipping into your savings.
01:07:42.420So what do you where do you see the economy going here?
01:07:45.780For example, one of the things that I don't think a lot of people are talking about is since covid started.
01:07:51.700The Trump administration basically turned off the requirement to pay your student loans, you know, and they said, OK, you know, for we're in the middle of a pandemic.
01:08:02.800You don't have to pay your student loans right now.
01:08:57.280And I think that's because people know you've got you've got something else you have to pile on here.
01:09:02.520People are going to be watching what the Fed decides to do this week because the Fed has to raise interest rates and they also have to taper.
01:09:14.660And what they've been doing, and we've been telling you this since 2008, what they've been doing is they've been buying our our federal debt.
01:09:24.380OK, instead of selling it to countries, no country will buy it.
01:09:28.380So the Fed has been buying that debt, which just adds to their balance sheet.
01:09:32.940Then they've been printing money as well, and they've been shipping that money to the banks and the banks have been using it to buy stocks and everything else.
01:09:47.140So they can they can put their balance sheet in order.
01:09:51.100You have had these bailouts going out going on really since 2008, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.
01:10:01.180They're tapering all of that now, which means they're turning that tap of cash off that's really flowing into the market.
01:10:08.780So they have to turn that off when they turn that off.
01:10:12.720That's going to cause problems with the bank.
01:10:15.260It's going to cause problems in the stock market.
01:10:17.700It's going to cause all kinds of problems because the money flow from the Fed, not the federal government, from the Fed is tapering off.
01:10:27.140Then they're going to also raise interest rates, which they have to do.
01:10:32.760The way you fight inflation is to raise interest rates.
01:10:37.120But no one on earth has ever tried to suck this much money back into the system, get it back to the to the Federal Reserve and the Treasury so it can be destroyed.
01:10:49.520No one in the history of the world has ever tried that in 1980, Paul Volcker got our interest rates up to, I think, 15 or I believe the highest was 19.
01:11:03.540It might have been 15, but I believe it was 19 percent, 19 percent.
01:11:50.940Then you worry about a deflationary period where people can't afford anything, so the prices cave.
01:11:58.920This is an incredible balance that I'm not sure they can do, and we're doing it at the worst possible time because we've made things so bad that if you don't have people who are willing to work, you're going to have inflation.
01:12:19.480If you then add extra salary to people to get them to work, that adds inflation.
01:12:27.480Then if you take the money from the corporations through loans to build new jobs and to expand, jobs start to become more and more scarce, and you're just in this cycle that just spins into the drain.
01:12:41.420I think we're in for real, real trouble over the next year to I think it could be until a Republican gets back into into power and we have a sane Senate and House.
01:13:01.200And I'm not saying that's a Republican one.
01:13:03.420It's just more sane than the Democrats.
01:13:05.660But until we start doing the right thing consistently and are willing to accept the pain that is coming from all of these horrible decisions, it's just going to keep getting worse.
01:13:18.540This kind of goes back to what the earlier caller was saying.
01:13:21.580You know, you mentioned the Reagan situation, and there's no better way to emphasize, I suppose, that conservative policies are better than by implementing liberal ones.
01:13:32.880Right. When they get in to office and they do the things that they want to do, people tend to wake up and say, wow, we really don't want that.
01:13:39.680We brought this up. We're winning to fund the police earlier.
01:13:42.200Right. Minneapolis is like, ah, we'll defund the police. Holy crap. Let's let's rethink that a little bit.
01:13:55.380Now we have evidence. And that's what's waking people up.
01:13:58.740But this is something that has been bothering me for a while, though.
01:14:02.380In all these conversations, including this previous caller who basically said, if you missed it, he said, you know, we need some chaos.
01:14:08.000And he explained a little nuanced explanation of that.
01:14:11.000But basically, we we need to let these things happen.
01:14:13.800We need to try these sort of things. We need to fight.
01:14:16.100We need to do all these things that maybe aren't consistent with our principles per se.
01:14:22.640But we need to win right now because we're always losing.
01:14:26.540And that is like an undercurrent of of almost every conservative.
01:14:30.880It seems that we all we're always losing.
01:14:34.140These things are always rolling over us and we never do anything.
01:14:37.080And therefore, we have to change everything that we're doing and and try these new tactics and, you know, go a little truck.
01:14:43.260Get a little wild. Like, let's try some stuff.
01:14:45.460And I don't know that's so pervasive on the right right now.
01:14:51.200But when you look at what's actually happening, these, for example, the vaccine mandates are not happening because we're we're out in the streets, causing chaos, causing chaos.
01:15:00.800They're being overturned because the courts are overturning them because they're unconstitutional.
01:15:05.200Right. And that's largely because of a long term conservative legal project that has resulted in a lot of good judges that actually know what the Constitution says.
01:15:15.700We can thank a lot of this. We can put the thanks on Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
01:15:23.320Yeah. And and I think, you know, it goes back further than that as well.
01:15:26.560But like it's but it's but it's been a that's a success story.
01:15:30.560Right. The possibility of Roe versus Wade being overturned.
01:15:34.820And again, I'm not counting those. And this is a weird way to talk about eggs and hatching because of the subject matter.
01:15:40.480I'm not counting that as a win, but the fact that it's even possible is because of a long term project.
01:15:46.660So why is why? Why do conservatives feel this pervasive sense of losing when it does seem like we're winning?
01:19:54.520You know, another way to show how the the right is winning is we talked about Bob Costas yesterday saying, hey, I'm not I'm not a crazy liberal here.
01:20:08.140And and maybe that's just the Overton window has been moved so far that Bob Costas can say credibly.
01:20:15.380I'm not like those people, but he's still a crazy liberal, but he's just not a revolutionary Marxist.
01:24:04.500Stu, we were talking last hour about this feeling that we are losing somehow.
01:24:13.180Yeah, you get this a lot from conservatives right now who just obviously were in a tough time, and a lot of things have gone wrong over the past couple of years.
01:24:20.800And there's a sort of pervasive sense of constant losing.
01:24:27.860You know, the example I hear all the time is this example of, like, you know, we can't just sit here and, like, let people have trans, you know, trans, what was it, the story time, you know, drag queen story time.
01:24:40.960And, like, yeah, of course, I would agree it's not a good thing for our society.
01:24:45.700Although, you know, I will say it's not a recognizable part of my life.
01:24:49.340You know, now I live in Texas where there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of pushback.
01:24:53.140Maybe if you're living in, you know, downtown Portland, the libraries are quite different.
01:24:56.500But it does seem that there's this sense of we're constantly in this state of losing where, like, you know, we're only, I mean, in 2021, Donald Trump was president.
01:25:09.240That was still going on in this year, right?
01:25:14.000Obviously, we're seeing the results of some of the judges, and I think the legal system has held up pretty well when it comes to all the crazy challenges that the left has brought to it in the later parts of this year.
01:25:28.860And what's happening, I think, now, everywhere from Afghanistan to inflation is people are seeing the results of what happens when you go the other way.
01:25:39.800And that is likely to lead to positive things pretty soon down the road.
01:25:45.080Now, we've also talked about how far ahead many times progressives are with things like ESG, and it makes you really doubt what the future can hold.
01:25:55.240But we also should recognize that a lot of these things that we've tried to do over the years have worked pretty well, and we've pushed back and won a lot of these battles, too.
01:28:30.900Before, we had, you know, these rhinos that were running, Michael Steele, that were running the Republican Party.
01:28:40.960Now, I think you have voters, Republican voters, that if they had another option, somebody that they believed would actually go buck their own party, if need be, to stop playing the same game, they'd vote for them.
01:29:54.020You notice nobody's denying now that Marxists are involved in our government, that Marxists are trying to overthrow the United States, that this revolution is truly a revolution.
01:30:10.600Notice not a lot of people now in the middle are denying that it seems as though the Democratic Party has been taken over by radicals and revolutionaries.
01:30:30.320Again, have you noticed that the press isn't listened to?
01:30:34.160Have you noticed that Jimmy Kimmel, or who was it this week, Fallon, gets the president on, and he's talking about the economy, and nobody is buying into this economy lie.
01:32:23.220Because, A, we are starting to learn how to tell stories on the right.
01:32:28.000And, B, the things that we've always talked about that were conspiracy theories or only theories are now being proven to be true.
01:32:39.120I say something now, and it used to take, you know, 10 years before you would see it.
01:32:45.640I can tell you now about the Great Reset and tell you that I think we're really, really behind the eight ball.
01:32:52.700But three months later, they've called it a conspiracy theory, and they're discredited because they are actually implementing it, and the banks are now doing these things, and you can point to them, and people are paying attention to it.
01:33:11.940We are winning because people are waking up, and the sides are flipping.
01:33:19.500They had the conservatives down because they said, it's all about Jesus and God, and they're forcing you to live like Jesus wants you to live, okay?
01:34:18.740This sort of sprung from a conversation I had with my wife on this idea that there's just this feeling of despair among the American people at times.
01:34:27.520You know, part of this obviously is COVID from both sides.
01:34:30.800You know, people losing loved ones and people having to deal with crazy restrictions and losing their livelihoods and all the things associated with it.
01:34:36.620And that's part of this era that I don't think you can separate.
01:34:39.360But, you know, it was after the Wisconsin parade incident where the guy, where that SUV ran over all those people, Glenn, the out of control SUV.
01:35:01.720And that's a totally rational like reaction to a madman running over a bunch of people at a Christmas parade.
01:35:09.220Obviously, obviously, but then I as I started thinking about it myself a little bit, we that very same weekend had gone to a Christmas parade slash festival type of thing.
01:35:29.380There were people from, I'm sure, all over the political spectrum there, but everyone was great.
01:35:33.840And we had a great time and we loved it.
01:35:35.860And at the same the same weekend, probably tens of thousands of communities had similar events that were fantastic and everybody loved them.
01:35:47.720And they all left happy and they, you know, they had their hot cocoa and they their kids were, you know, wide eyed looking at Santa Claus and all the things that happened all over the country for so many people.
01:36:00.220And almost all of them were not at this one parade that we all know about that was legitimately tragic and horrible.
01:36:07.480And we need to, you know, we need to worry about and stop, of course.
01:36:11.460But it doesn't affect, you know, it probably did not affect your life.
01:36:16.020It was a really terrible thing that happened and it gave the sense to even my wife who and myself who were at really wonderful events that same weekend that the whole society was falling apart.
01:36:30.960And I mean, in reality, that's not true, right?
01:36:49.760It's not the media saying, OK, well, don't worry about that.
01:36:52.040They seem to not want to talk about the Wisconsin parade, right?
01:36:55.160Because it didn't feed their narrative, which is waking even more people up.
01:37:00.700The ones who responded, the ones who helped, the ones who are talking about it, were talking about it.
01:37:07.760Those, generally speaking, are the conservatives, the conservative movement, the ones who are ignoring this clear tragedy and a flaw in their own thinking, their own system.
01:37:24.040They brought this upon this community.
01:39:20.040And if you have kids or grandkids, or maybe you just want to understand it yourself and you've never read Leviathan or you've never read The Road to Serfdom.
01:40:24.160These are the texts that now have been revealed by the press and by Congress of all of the texts between all of the people in on January 6th.
01:42:13.240Because it seems like the media is trying to basically say, well, you've heard dismissive comments from Fox News hosts about the seriousness of January 6.
01:42:22.020But in the moment, they knew how serious it was and were texting the president.
01:43:04.260So, the CEO of Goldman Sachs just said publicly that he expects lower returns on the stock market for a few years.
01:43:14.540The stock market is overinflated and it's overinflated by money that has been coming from the Fed.
01:43:21.040Now that the Fed, we'll know this week, is going to start ratcheting that money down, you're going to see the stock market start to go down.
01:43:29.260As they raise interest rates, you're going to see all kinds of bad things.
01:43:33.760As you see inflation go up, whether it's from money printing or people not willing to work or both in this case, you're going to see problems.
01:43:46.940And eventually, all of this would mean a dollar that is worthless and they're going to have to change to something.
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01:46:47.640But now you've got people that have two, possibly three, possibly four shots, depending on who you are and where you fall within the spectrum of liberalism.
01:46:59.060Um, and, and it just doesn't make any sense.
01:47:09.240So I think it all comes down to, uh, power.
01:47:12.920I think Governor Hochul waited for this variant to come and she sees the moment like most politicians do on the left and decided that it was time to put her fist down, show her power.
01:47:26.120Um, and she, she instituted the mask mandate.
01:47:29.580The problem that she's going to have is that the compliance level is not going to be there.
01:47:33.920And I can already see that it's not there.
01:49:48.900So you can understand them acting irrationally, but it's, it's supposed to be the job of science and government to get over the hump of that, uh, of, of the emotions of a tragic event and treat it in a sober fashion.
01:50:03.460But we can't, we can't, no, because it has been made into politics.